outdid U of Antelope Valley (8.3 inches), International Baptist College (9.3 inches), United States Univ (9.8 inches), and Thunderbird School of Global Management (10.8 inches), and others, ending with Centro de Estudios Multidisciplinarios-Humacao (107.1 inches).

28 out of the other 737 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, e.g., U of Phoenix-Idaho Campus.

1. Weather data comes from NOAA'S 1981-2010 Climate Normals data files at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, using the closest weather station to each college, as determined by distance calculations using the latitude and longitude of the weather station and of the college, as listed in the IPEDS directory (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

ITT Technical Institute-Las Vegas is in North Las Vegas, NV, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, has its top major in criminal justice, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is computer systems networking and telecommunications, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($48,530)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,659)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,478)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (91%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (82%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (74%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (70.1%)
• minorities (35.4%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (22.6%)
• Hispanics (17.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (15.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (5.2%)
• Asians (2.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -0.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (48.0 degrees)
• first-year applicants (237)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (409)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (552)
• yearly for-credit students (990)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (22)
• annual rainfall (5.4 inches)
• elevation (669 meters)

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